Inter-Generational > Back To The Future Part 2 | Future Hearts > Mesa MeltDown

Up for a surprise in the New Urban Downtown Mesa today during a too-quiet walk in the green space between the library and the convention center > hearing the sound of an amplified band.
My ears told me where to go in the direction of the Mesa Ampitheater - Womp! hundreds of people waiting in line!
This is a Tuesday afternoon just after 3 o'clock, the streets are usually devoid of people. What's goin' on?
My eyes were open to a whole new generation. I stopped and talked to find out ... Rain or Shine/All Ages

Take a look at concert poster [click on to enlarge]

Here's the crowd waiting in line in the image to the left, stretching back at least 150 yards going in one direction. This is on the walkway between the Mesa Convention Center  and the Mesa Ampitheater.

And here's the retail business district on Main Street at the same time . . . where are the people? You can see City Hall @ Center Street in the middle of the image.                                               

Hey!
Bona fide WORLDWIDE SENSATION HERE IN MESA just a couple of blocks away

Here are the musicians that hit my ears with their music and who attracted a crowd in the center of the city at the outdoor entertainment venue Mesa Amphitheater

ALLTIME LOW here Rain or Shine | All Ages | Who is All Time Low??                       Billboard chart-topping American rock group.  They’ve repeatedly topped the charts, sold over 1.2 million albums worldwide, raked in 100+ million views on YouTube, toured with the biggest names in music, and have taken over airwaves around the globe… American rock band All Time Low is a bona fide worldwide sensation and they’re kicking off a whole new chapter in 2015.


More of the crowd, early admission

After a two-year writing binge, band members Alex Gaskarth, Jack Barakat, Rian Dawson and Zack Merrick are back with what Alternative Press Magazine called the “most anticipated album of 2015”: their sixth studio album, Future Hearts.  The album, released on April 7th, debuted as the top selling album on the US and UK charts.

The massive buzz surrounding the new album triggered a fan frenzy among their 5+ million followers on social media.

 

Here's another group on today's program:

 

HERE'S WHAT'S NEXT

 

 

 

 

Just Havin' Fun > Time To De-Compress or To Compress? Doff N' Donner

MESA, AZ (PRWEB) OCTOBER 14, 2015
The Doff N' Donner has won the prestigious "Innovation to Care" Award (I2C) at a recent Medical Trade Show in Europe. The Doff N' Donner is used by Patients & Medical Professionals in the Application and Removal of Compression Stockings.
Link to Press Release >> Doff N' Donner in PR Web
[This blog covers a lot of demographics, if you're wondering]
What's this all about?
Compression Stockings have always had a notoriously poor compliance rate due to the difficulty in donning and doffing the stockings onto the legs. The Doff N' Donner has now been awarded and duly recognized for its innovative solution to this major industry problem.
This Mesa-based company,in the compression stockings market since 2012, helps patients & medical professionals to put on and take off compression therapy garments with greater ease. It is quickly becoming the gold standard in its field and has so far helped over a hundred thousand people around the world.
More than you want to know > http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/10/prweb13016677.htm

Nammo Talley Back In The News >

According to a report 15 October in naval-technology.com Norwegian aerospace and defense group Nammo has received a contract from the US Army Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition (SMCA) to provide shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon (SMAW) common practice rocket (CPR) ammunition to the US Marine Corps (USMC).

Mesa AZ location

It is the first order under the USMC, SMAW ammunition contract worth more than $42.7million.

Initially awarded in September [as noted in a post on this blog on 10 July], this five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract has options to deliver three types of 83mm SMAW ammunition, the company stated.

In another development, Nammo has received an order to produce the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition (BDM).

Oct 15, 2015 .defense-aerospace.com

(Source: Nammo AS; issued Oct 14, 2015)

RAUFOSS, Norway --- On September 23, Nammo was awarded Delivery Order 19 to the indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to produce the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition.
Work will be completed in Mesa, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah with delivery in December 2016. Maximum value of the multi-year contract is $567 million USD but actual value will depend on the total quantity of rounds supplied.
M141 BDM is a direct fire, man-portable infantry assault weapon comprised of a disposable launcher and an 83mm high explosive dual purpose round.

"Nammo Talley is proud to continue the M141 BDM program with our nineteenth delivery order on this contract. We'll work relentlessly to exceed the Army's expectations for quality, on-time delivery and safe manufacturing processes", says Scott Selle, Executive Vice President of Nammo Talley, a U.S. division of the Nammo Group.

This represents the delivery order 19 to the multi-year ID/IQ contract with a maximum value of $567m.
Work under this order will be performed in Mesa, Arizona and Salt Lake City and the system is expected to be delivered in December 2016.
Selle said: "Nammo Talley is proud to continue the M141 BDM programme with our nineteenth delivery order on this contract.
Nammo's M141 BDM is a direct fire, man-portable infantry assault weapon that includes a disposable launcher and an 83mm high-explosive, dual-purpose round.

Nammo Talley
Awarded M141 BDM Delivery Order

Wednesday, October 14th 2015

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2015/10/14/nammo-awarded-m141-bdm-delivery-order#axzz3p86ZHzZJ

Low Sale Price For Multi-unit Apartment Complex

Image from azbigmedia.com

Hard to say if the expansion of Valley Metro Light Rail is producing higher property values along the new public transit path. 
The location where The Landmark Restaurant was at the corner of Main Street && Extension sold for just under $1 million. Going past that on light rail the other day the property appears unkempt with a broken window . . .
The contentious property transfer of Mesa Royale Mobile Home Park was done with a 42% reduction in the sales price of $4.2 million originally asked for by LRA Associates.
Today it was reported in AZ Big Media that Excel Real Estates, Zong-fu Li, principal, paid $3,800,000 ($41,304 per unit) to buy the 92-unit Warren Park apartments located 1433 W. University Dr. in Mesa, Arizona. Wyoming Blvd - one block north of the LRT route.
Other than low negotiated sales prices, one of the things in common with these two [and other] transactions is that the sellers are family trusts.
In the case of Mesa Royale property on west Main Street - directly on the light rail route - it was the Gene Ham Family Trust.
The seller of Warren Park Apartments shown in the image above was The Frank and Joanne Warren Trust, c/o Warren Properties of Rancho Santa Fe, California. [they obviously retired well]
The deal was brokered through Bill Hahn, Jeff Sherman and Trevor Koskovich (HSK) of Colliers International in Phoenix.
Maricopa County records show the buyer acquired the property with a new loan issued by Opus Bank. The financing was arranged by Brandon Harrington and Matt Steffen of Walker & Dunlop of Phoenix. The complex was built in 1977.

Nice & Easy Does It > Tortoise Out For A Stroll Spotted by Police

Facebook/ABC 15

Today at 2:25 pm the East Valley Tribune published a report by ABC15 news . . .
Suspicious behavior?
An escaped prisoner that was apprehended?
A threat to public safety?
Public indecency?
Missing Alzheimer's patient?
or
None of the above?
[Just enjoying a jaunt and out for a little exercise in the neighborhood by a free-living reptile after all the rain showers . . . who's to say about this big story on a slow-news day. If you snooze, you lose]

Points of Light: Houston Calling

Janice Dell and Darcy Ljunggren, Volunteer Coordinators for the Mesa Public Library, are in Houston for the Points of Light's Conference on Volunteering and Service - the largest convening of volunteer, national service and civic leaders in the world.
The City of Mesa estimates that its dollar volume [if anyone can put a dollar-amount on citizen service] of volunteer hours is $8 Million.
Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene in one place - to learn from, share with and get inspired by one another - to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do.
The 2015 Conference on October 19-21, 2015, will examine how the next generation of change-makers are creating new pathways for direct action and unleashing power to make a difference in the world.
Did You Know?
Over 1 billion adults and youth in the world are unable to read.
Literacy levels in Arizona are at an all time low.
Being unable to read - illiteracy - is now classified as a functional disability.

One activity Janice and Darcy are excited about: Read Across the Globe, an initiative that brings the power of volunteers together to impact literacy in communities. One of its goals, for a quick impact and to bring attention to learning to read - is to set a new Guinness World Record for the most children read to by an adult in 24 hours.

Read Across the Globe is an initiative that brings the power of volunteers together to impact literacy in your community. One of our goals is to break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ for the ‘most children reading with an adult in 24 hours’.
Working with volunteers, educators, and partners in every time zone,
we'll read to children around the globe to shine a light on literacy.
Help them set  a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ and pledge to host
a reading event or volunteer today!
Read more >> http://www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/conference-volunteering-and-service
Read Across the Globe is part of a week of literacy-awareness events.
October 18, 2015: Scope-a-thon
October 19, 2015: Read Across the Globe (Grades K - 12)
October 22, 2015: Read for the Record (Preschool)
October 24, 2015: Make a Difference Day
http://www.pointsoflight.org/readacrosstheglobe

You can see a line-up of some of the more prominent speakers in the  image to the right.
If the phrase "A Thousand Points of Light"
rings a bell, it was used by former president George HW Bush in his inaugural address:
"We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a thousand points of light."
At the time of the World Trade Center attacks in New York Vitamin September 11, 2001, his son and President at that time George Bush was interrupted with news of that national emergency while reading to a classroom of students in Texas.

Brother Neil Bush was featured reading to a group in a tweet from the conference

Some of the Service Ambassadors include Political Satirist/Comedian John Oliver and actor Kevin Bacon

Dia de Los Muertos Gets The Attention It Deserves